| Autor: |
Shindo, Masahisa, Yoshida, Yuichi, Tominaga, Kyoko, Yamamoto, Osamu |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2013 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Yonago Acta medica. 2013, 56(2), 57?58 |
| Popis: |
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) rarely metastasizes to the skin. Metastases to the nasal tip from hypopharyngeal malignancies are extremely rare. We present a patient with nasal tip metastasis from hypopharyngeal SCC. A 74-year-old man with hypopharyngeal and esophageal carcinomas had a red nodule on his nasal tip (so-called "clown nose"). Histopathologically, atypical squamoid cell nests had proliferated in a lobular fashion from the dermis to subcutaneous tissue. Those atypical cells were identical to primary tumor cells in the hypopharynx. Based on these findings, a diagnosis of skin metastasis from hypopharyngeal SCC was made. In patients with malignant disease, biopsy should be performed for any suspicious skin lesion. In a patient like ours, "clown nose" might be a symptom of cutaneous metastasis. When clinicians note a "clown nose", they should consider malignancies in the neck and chest areas. |
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OpenAIRE |
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